Event EB15
Percival Everett in conversation with Kamila Shamsie
Who Tells the Story?
– Knuden Auditorium
In his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel James, Percival Everett brought to the foreground a character who had long lingered at the margins of literature. When Jim took the spotlight, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn started sounding like a different story. Giving voice to people traditionally left out of the narrative, dismissed as footnotes or sidekicks at best, has been a constant throughout Everett’s career and is again at the heart of his latest novel, Serious Music. In conversation with the author Kamila Shamsie, he explores who gets to tell a story, why it has so often been the same people telling it, and how changing the teller changes the story itself.
Co-organised with Equator magazine
Price: £16.00
